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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 02, 1918
Page
4
The Muscatine Journal and the News-Tribune announce a consolidation to conserve newsprint and reduce advertising costs amid higher material prices and labor shortages. The merger aims to stabilize local press, leveraging safer business for the public and meeting war board resource limits.
A wartime program offers college opportunities to capable young men who lack funds to complete schooling. It emphasizes that college entry now stands as a major chance for those historically unable to finance higher education. The message motivates applicants to pursue this opportunity.
ABE MARTIN jokes about a rumor that Miss Ermie Moots is engaged to a corporal. He mocks the idea as talk of the town while noting the kaiser’s talk as he speaks with head back and mouth full of tools.
A wartime poem urging endurance by recalling France. The speaker cites rising costs and privations at home but counsels quiet resolve, urging readers to think of France as a moral center guiding patience and sacrifice during hardship.
The government will pay all student army training corps expenses plus thirty dollars a month. The college course will merge with military training to provide physical fitness and a collegiate education. Inspections by regular army officers will monitor colleges, and nonperforming students risk being drafted or forced to study harder.
A memory notes a damaging freeze on September 9 last year that harmed late corn crops and affected harvest prospects.
Nighttime hints at approaching cold weather while readers consider coal supplies. The Great White Way and motor trails see steady tourist traffic with cars from Nebraska Missouri South Dakota Illinois Ohio Texas and California passing through Washington.
Rain dampens Labor Day parades while schools reopen for fall term. Corn outlook improves after last year’s freeze. A Missouri family stranded finds help with a loaned curvatire. Jay McNamara meets a talking parrot at a farmhouse. Town boards and barber shops mark the holiday with adjusted schedules.
The British Museum houses the oldest known Chinese writing on oracle bones. Researchers cite inscriptions with early characters, revealing ancient script use and cultural practices.
Mlotes suffer from abrupt weather changes and should be kept in chanmols leather to protect them. The note suggests careful housing to mitigate climate stress and maintain health.
Washington reports new regulations by Food Administrator Hoover to relax wheat flour limits and provide mixed flour for France England Italy and the United States. Beginning September 1 bread will be made with eighty percent wheat and twenty percent substitute grains to sustain allies and ease shortages while households are urged to adopt mixed flour in home baking.
In Montana primary returns show Dr. O A Lanstrom leading Miss Jeanette Rankin for the Republican U S Senate nomination by about 2700 votes across the state. Rankin’s brother says she will again seek the November senate seat even without the nomination.
A Chicago Tribune item notes a neighbor complimenting a woman on her hair. Charlie nearby adds a risqué remark about what else is on the dresser, implying improper behavior.
London aged dispatches report Bolshevik premier Nikolai Lenine shot twice in Moscow last Friday and died of wounds. A beautiful woman, member of the Social Revolutionary party, is said to have fired the shots and has been arrested according to Moscow advices. Contending reports from Norwegian sources cast doubt on the death.
Worry and overwork cause kidney trouble and women suffer like men. Miss Sara Western of Belvidere HL writes of severe pain and immobility until Foley Kidney Pills restored her strength and vitality. Lemmon's Pharmacy advertises the remedy.
The president urges labor to aid in guiding the world toward a better day. He emphasizes unity across classes, shared goals, and mutual responsibility, saying the nation stands united and empowered when united, weakened when divided.
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